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Now's the time to sign Ron Hainsey back in the fold with our organization to reunite with Mike Komisarek!
Mark Streit, thanks for the memories, I'll miss your heart playing on the team and anchoring on the PP as well. You were one smart dude with those nifty passes on the PP that I sometimes was in awe!
Bonne Chance mon ami!
"We will win the Cup only with Carey Price in the nets"
Where was Mark Streit in the Playoffs??? Exactly.
Buh-bye, enjoy Wang's $$$, Mark, oh and all those rabid Isles fans (sarcasm, they have none).
Overpaid salary a la max. Great job by Gainey to NOT sign him. I would be pissed if we signed Streit for 4 million. It's too early to give this guy 4 million.. Ridicilous.
Mike Millbury must be GMing the ISlanders again..
I Liked Streit on the PP as a defenseman, rather have him on the wing for regular shifts though. Can he hold down a d-spot full time with the same results? Will NY now have he top power paly cause of Streit? He can definatley push for top 4 D-man 'playing' time. I got lookin at the Isles stats he is the potentionally the teams top scorer, Comrie finished with 49, also when I looked at last years roster they dressed 18 differnt players throughout the season on D.
Good luck Streit, someone had to be willing to pay the big bucks for you, I'm just sad you chose the Isles, gonna be a long 4 years brother....
IMO, Streit is a top 4 D on any team in the league, including ours (not a popular opinion these days leading up to July 1st), plus he is a master on the powerplay. His style of play and skill level is much the same as Markov although his toughness in our end is not quite the there. But I think he moves the puck at least as good as Marky. Unfortunately for Streit I think his lack of toughness in his end plus a weak Islanders team is not a good fit. Because of their lineup he might see 20 minutes a game; he needs to be partnered with a strong stay at home guy - not sure the Isles really have another D to complement Mark.
Streit couldn't crack the top 6 in Montreal, and certainly could not in Detroit or Anaheim . PP specialist, with a one year track record for 4 mil a year is crazy. The money flowing for marginal players is nuts.
The only way this might come back to haunt us:
If Ryder LEARNS how to:
1)puckhandle, and
2)pass, and
3)play two-way hockey, and
4)win one-on-one battles, and
5)improves his skating...
In other words, I think we can be sleep well the next 3 years....
Are you sick? Puckhandle? Have you seen what that guy can do with a puck in the high circle? Clearly you haven't. It's Kovalev-esque. He's got a LASER BEAM. This guy is a goal scorer, pure and simple. The Habs gave up on him SO quickly, yet Gui! is still a work in progress (Gui!, by the way can only dream of having the shot Ryder has, and doesn't possess any of the skills you blame Ryder for not having).
Also, we could've used Streit. We could've signed him for cheaper than the Isles did before the deadline.
Ryder has a neat little puck-drag move that fools the defender the 1st time he sees it; after that it's 50-50 as to whether he shoots or loses the puck. In addition, 'pass' is a foreign word to him.
Ryder has a LASER BEAM - too bad he can't aim it. He shoots and nobody knows where it'll go, including him. Lats has as heavy a shot.
Ryder is 28, did 3 yrs in Hamilton, then 3 yrs in Mtl, and is STILL a defensive liability. Lats is 20 (21 now?), and has more potential than Ryder did 7 yrs ago.
Thanks, I'll take Lats any day.
LMAO, Puck-handling is DEFINITELY not Ryder's forte.
Well said. I don't think I've ever seen Ryder take the puck one handed, on his backhand, and beat anyone one on one.
He did improve on his positioning this season and was less of a defensive liability.
Now that's worth 4 million!
Ryder will finally get respect as a top scorer and will be given full opportunity to play under Julien. He led the Habs with 85 goals in 3 seasons. I guess he will make us pay this year when we face the Bruins. You idiots who don't recognize our mistake in mishandling him all last season will see him get 40 plus goals. He will be on the first or second line all season and will get to use his potent wrist shot on the powerplay and will wreak havok against us. Now Mark Streit is forgotten and his 62 points as a versatile player will have to be replaced . He could play defence or forward and was a fixture on the powerplay last season. With Ryder and Streit gone we better get someone in there that is great on the powerplay. Making the playoffs is not our goal we want to go to the finals. If we don't get a big addition besides Tanguay we will not reach that goal.
Ryder mishandled himself onto the bench. You have to try. He stopped trying, so he goes to Boston who has overpaid for him. His lack of team play ability with some of the best passers and skaters in the league this year showed he no longer fit. BG has room for an impact player, something that Ryder never will be. He doesn't care enough.
Gilbert
all i can say is remember John Leclair??
I agree with you 1000% Nfld.
Dear Sir
I qoute you "You idiots who don't recognize our mistake in mishandling him all last season will see him get 40 plus goals."
I have two questions.
1) Why do you call people who simply give their opinions idiots?
2) Who is "We"?
it's absolutely true that the city, the team, and the fans turned on him extremely early and in ruthless fashion. he was said to be in a slump by ten games in, and asked about it daily. then his ice time got cut. and then he was sitting.
he'll make us pay. . . if it wasn't the bruins i'd be cheering every second of it. i blame carbo for his small-minded reactiveness.
watch the feb 19th rangers game again. tell me if you aren't a fan of the man. see the way he carried himself. 100% class. it will be hard not to smile when he makes us pay. i agree he's a 40 goal scorer if given the ice time. . . which he'll be given.
let's judge this one in two years rather than being clever to say he's way out of his market.
agree . not much more you can say.
mmhmm.
Welcome to the NHL, where your productivity can drop in half and you get a million dollar raise. They must be working on a different plane than the rest of us. If I took half the year off, was less than productive, I would get canned. Not with the Bruins, where they will give you a raise.
The lockout was supposed to get rid of this stupidity, but by the looks of it today, idiots abound more than ever. Now with Streit I wish him well. but paying a one dimensional D man that kind of money, is foolish at best.
As for Gainey, he still needs to add some size to the lineup. Maybe some of their big draft picks will come of age, or they still have a few days to go shopping on the FA market, where money is found a lot easier than brains!!!!
Oh, and not to change the topic, but the reason we collapsed in the playoffs and the bottleneck/ceiling with regards to future success is not the team, it's the coach. That's the ONLY thing that keeps me up at night with respect to the Habs.
Though I will agree that "small-minded reactiveness" is at the heart of the limitations he has shown so far.
I think Carbo did a better job of handling the team last year than he did in his first year. Yeah, there were still many mistakes but he improved. I think he will continue to improve this year and in a way his development as a coach is on the same trajectory as our core young players. I think that the coaching and management team surrounding him are very supportive and have all grown together. That kind of mutual respect is not common on a lot of teams and I think it will allow Carboneau to continue his development into a very good coach. But, that's just my opinion.
If I recall correctly, ryder went to arbitration last summer where he was awarded what, 3 million per year because he scored 30+ goals a few years in a row.
Now, he has arguably the worst season on the team, racks up a grand total of 31 points, and gets a 12 million dollar contract.
The word incentive means nothing to these players. This is categorical proof that you can be a nobody, (see Finger, Jeff) and be a multimillionaire in this ridiculous excuse for a CBA.
Ryder settled prior to arbitraion in each of the last three years.
well, he just got a 33% raise outta the Bruins.
the CBA ain't the problem. human nature is. and since it's tied to profits what goes up, may come down. that's the REAL danger of these ridiculous long-term contracts. not sure how the U.S. is going to identify growth markets when ticket prices are maxed out, many places are at capacity, t.v. rights are maxed in Canada and pathetic in the U.S.
that's going to be the funny year: when the cap shrinks by a couple of million. bettman will try to have six outdoor games a year. . .
or start the season in places like korea and borneo
damn that was funny, jb
Got to go and light the fireworks!!